[St Charles Owl]

I've been a bit confused about the perception of the No campaign being the negative one. The Yes campaign was full of rhetoric about the UK government is taking this, that and the other from us, starving our children, stealing our oil money etc. The No campaign was based in realism, not negativity. The Yes campaign was a mixture of cloud cuckoo land peronism and negativity towards the union and towards No backers. Alex Salmon saying the big businesses and banks were coerced into making statements about what would happen in the event of a Yes vote? Give me a break.

I have to say I have been following the independence thread on the old site and I have never seen so much biased comments on one thread before in my life!!!! I have been following the debate through various news channels, all online as its really not in the news here at all until the actual voting day, and from what I have seen the No campaign seemed to be a bit of a bungling bunch but were giving information that benefitted their argument for obvious reasons. The Yes campaign seemed to me to just side step so many important issues that would have allayed a lot of the fears that normal Scottish folk had, to me they were inept and missed a great opportunity to further their cause. Big mistake by Salmond in my opinion but I have always thought he was a lightweight politician!! But of course the thread on the other site saw everything No said as being either lies or bullying or scaremongering etc, no realism in a lot of the posts!!